Reforming Rubbering Rosie - Production & Contact Info (original) (raw)

For many years Rosie was haunted with one awful fear. She thought the day was fast approaching when she would be too large to hang out of the window from morning to night, and watch what was going on in the streets. But now that dread has ...See moreFor many years Rosie was haunted with one awful fear. She thought the day was fast approaching when she would be too large to hang out of the window from morning to night, and watch what was going on in the streets. But now that dread has been removed. Rosie does not care how fat she gets, for she no longer "rubbers." The cure took all one day, and it convinced Rosie that many wonderful events happened in the home, unnoticed by the woman who is gazing out of the window. While Rosie "rubbered" her daughter eloped with a fireman, her cat stole the bird from her new Sunday hat, and her son took the bead trimmings from the same article of apparel, finding that the beads made most excellent substitutes for marbles. Also the representative of the Discord Piano Company removed the instrument upon which she was several months in arrears. As a windup to the day's festivities, the place caught fire, owing to the fact that one of the piano movers had placed the hat of Rosie on the table beside a half-burned cigarette left carelessly there by another helper. As the blaze was confined to the rear of the apartment, Rosie did not know her home was in danger, but she saw the engines going around the corner, and lamented that she was not cross-eyed, so she could witness what was happening. Rosie's daughter and her fiancé were just going into a church to be married when the alarm sounded, and he had to leave her when duty called. To his surprise he found it was his mother-in-law's tenement home that was ablaze, and good fortune gave him the opportunity to save her life twice, once when he dragged her shrieking from the window and hurled her into a fire net, and the second time when she returned into the blazing building to rescue her hat, was overcome when she saw how it had been ruined by her son and the cat and again was hurled into the waiting fire now held by the brave "fire laddies." After she had been revived, Rosie was informed of the elopement that had been halted, and was formally asked to accept her two-time preserver as a son-in-law. Full of gratitude, she consented, but only on condition that he buy her a new hat, terms which he gleefully agreed to. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less